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The Importance of Early Childhood Poverty
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The Importance of Early Childhood Poverty
Refrence:
Duncan, G. J., Magnuson, K., Kalil, A., & Ziol-Guest, K. (2012;2011;). The importance of early childhood poverty. Social Indicators Research, 108(1), 87-98. doi:10.1007/s11205-011-9867-9
Overall
Most poor children achieve less, exhibit more problem behaviors and are less healthy than children in well off families.
Emerging evidence highlights the critical importance of early childhood for brain development and for establishing the functions and structures that shape future cognitive, social, emotional and health outcomes.
Why Poverty May Hinder Development
Why Early Poverty May Matter the Most
- The article argues that the timing of child poverty matters and that for some outcomes later in life, particularly those related to achievement skills and cognitive development, poverty early in a child's life may be harmful.
A long line of research has found that low income parents, as compared with middle-class parents, are more likely to use an authoritarian and corrective parenting style and less likely to provide their children with stimulating learning experiences in the home. Children are more likely to end up with depression. Low-income kids are less likely to get the type of stimulation from their parents and environment that helps the brain grow
Poverty in the United States and Elsewhere
Poverty rates for children are considerably higher. Nearly one quarter of US children are classified as poor using the 50% of median standard. While higher than any of the countries in the study, the US rate is only a few points above rates in the UK, Canada and Poland.
Introduction
Using a poverty line of about $22,000 for a family of four, the US census Bureau counted more than 15 million US children living in poor families. On average, poor US kindergarten children have lower levels of reading and math skills and are rated by their teachers as less well behaved than their more well off peers.